ART DECO AT 100

August 16 | 7:30PM

School for Creative & Performing Arts

108 West Central Parkway, 45202

The program connects the music of the pre-war era and the 1920s with works by France’s and Italy’s greatest living composers (at the time)—Ravel and Respighi, respectively—and works by emerging composers like Gershwin and Ellington.

Named after the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, Art Deco influenced fashion, jewelry, buildings, bridges, ocean liners, trains, furniture, and everyday objects including radios and vacuum cleaners. It flourished in the U.S. and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s until it was swallowed up by the evil that swept across Europe.